The Arabs believe that Mecca was founded by Adam, and that its temple,
the Kaaba, was built by Abraham. They ascribe the early prosperity of the
city to Ishmael, who established his residence there, because, as the
Arabian traditions assert, the brackish well of Zemzem was the one to
which the angel directed Hagar. Mecca must have been a very ancient city,
if, as the commentators believe, it was the Mesha mentioned by Moses as
inhabited by Joktan’s posterity. Medina, the sister city of Islam called
Yatreb before the appearance of Muhammed, possesses more natural
advantages than Mecca; but it is not situated so conveniently for traffic.
The people of Medina seem always to have been jealous of the supremacy
claimed by the Meccans. This was probably the reason why they espoused the
cause of Muhammed when he began to preach his new message about the
renewed faith of Abraham that he claimed to be a prophet to teach.

Muhammed was very familiar with the teachings of the Jews and the
Christians. There were quite a number of Jews, along with some exiled
Samaritans, who lived in the Arabian peninsula bordering the Red Sea.
Muhammed came in contact with many of them. The book Islam by
Alfred Guillaume states:

"There was a large Jewish colony in the Yemen
in pre-Islam times, and they maintained an organized communal existence
for centuries until they were brought to Palestine a few years ago.
These Yemenite Jews certainly go back to the fourth century C.E., and at
one time the ruling king had become a Jew. Two

[Jewish] descendants of these people
exercised a profound influence on Muslim tradition. At the dawn of Islam
the Jews dominated the economic life [of the region].
They held all the best land in the oases of Taima, Fadak, and
Wadi-I-Qura; at Medina they must have formed at least half the
population."

Guillaume, Islam, p.
11, emphasis mine

It is important to realize that Muhammed was very familiar with Jewish
and (consequently) Samaritan religious beliefs and practices. But this was
not all. Muhammed himself was a member of the Hussein branch of the
prestigious Koreish priestly tribe that had long been in charge of the
sacred area of Mecca. Just who were these people who made up the Koreish
tribe?

The priestly Koreish tribe of Mecca, to which all the Arabs of the
peninsula gave honor and respect, has an interesting traditional history
associated with it. Its ancient origination was from one of the most
famous cities and regions of Mesopotamia. They were known to have come
from Cutha (the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Ed., vol. 17,
p.399b). Cutha was a city located before the days of Alexander the
Great a few miles northeast of Babylon. It was one of the earliest priest
cities of the world. It was formerly the capital of the ancient kingdom of
Sumer which came into being right after the Flood. It was first built by
Cush the son of Ham (from whom it was named) and it was a city associated
in power and influence with Babylon itself. And note this. It was the same
central area from whence theSamaritans who lived in central
Palestine came from. That’s right, Muhammed and the Samaritans had the
same origin. It means that both of them were a part of The People That
History Forgot.

The fact that Muhammed had his origin from a priestly tribe that came
from the famous Cutha in Mesopotamia is a most significant bit of
information. At the time of Muhammed, the city of Cutha had long
ago disappeared (it came to an end just after the time of Alexander the
Great), but for the Koreish tribe to remember their prestigious priestly
origin for the centuries that followed shows that they held their Cutha
ancestry in esteem. The word "Koreish" means the same as "Cyrus" in Hebrew
and they may have adopted the name in honor of the Persian king because he
restored the priesthoods in Mesopotamia to their former prestige and let
peoples raise up temples and priesthoods in other areas of the Persian
Empire. The Koreish knew they came from the priestly center of Cutha
and they said Abraham was born there. This means that at sometime in the
past (probably a few centuries before Christ when Cutha was still
thriving as a city), some of the priests from that region of Mesopotamia
moved into western Arabia and joined forces with the people of Ishmael by
marrying into their stock and becoming their priests.

Now again, who were the Cuthians? This was a very common name
among the Jews. With so many Jews in Arabia at the time of Muhammed there
would have been no doubt in identifying the origin of the Koreish priestly
tribe to which Muhammed belonged. In Jewish parlance a secondary name for
the Babylonian people of Samaria that the Assyrians had brought into
Palestine in the 7th century B.C.E. was the Cuthians.
Throughout the Talmud (written in the two to three hundred year period
before Muhammed) the name Cuthians for Samaritans was a common one
in regular use among the Jews. What this indication shows is that Muhammed
was no doubt a descendant of the same type of people as the Samaritans
(the original Cuthians from near Babylon).

This means, though separated by five hundred years, Muhammed was a
Cuthian like Simon Magus. This fact is not often realized by people,
but it is an important one to consider because Simon Magus and his
successors can be shown to be the ones who corrupted early Christianity
and now the same stock of people were with Muhammed beginning to raise up
a new world religion from Arabia. This means that the origins of both the
type of Christianity we have today with pictures, images, icons, etc. was
started by those who came from Cutha near Babylon, but also we find
that Muhammed who revolted against the use of idols was still a person who
came from the same general stock of people.

This means that though the doctrines of the various Christian sects and
the various sects of Islam are very different from one another, still the
impetus for their devising a "one world religion" came from the same stock
of people. Thus, we have two world religions having their basic origins
directly from the region of Babylon in Mesopotamia.

The Book of Daniel shows that all the political and religious factors
that make up our world today had their origination with Nebuchadnezzar,
king of Babylon (Daniel 2). Jeremiah was told that a new age was beginning
in his time and that he was to be an axial prophet. Jeremiah was to close
one age in history and open up a new one. In his first chapter, Jeremiah
was told,

"See, I

[God]
have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to
root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down[and]to build and to plant!"

Jeremiah 1:10

This new age was to commence with Nebuchadnezzar and the emergence of
the Neo-Babylonian Empire. This is what the whole of the Book of Daniel
was designed to inform the world. It was to be a "Babylonian" world from
then on no matter in what region of the world one would live. Babylon was
to be the head of gold (that is, the principles that governed Babylon
would be those that would influence all future nations on earth until the
Kingdom of God would be set up on earth from the city of Jerusalem). That
is why in the Book of Revelation, we find all the various kingdoms of the
world that the book discusses as being "Babylonian" in origin.

And what do we have? In Christianity we have been taken over by the
philosophies and doctrines of the Babylonians as promulgated by the
syncretism of Simon Magus and his successors. We have the images and icons
of the pagans in most churches and though they are clearly the remnants of
the old pagan gods and goddesses, we call them by the names of Christ, the
apostles, the prophets and other men who were influential in early
Christianity. And, the Christian society which represents about a third of
the population of the present world is more prone to the use of the
Babylonian idols than even the ancient Babylonians themselves.

And though with Islam, the very opposite is the case with its
abhorrence of any form of idolatry or image making, its philosophy of a
one-world, universal government coming from Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem is
the same concept that Nebuchadnezzar and his successors were advocating.
And now that it can be known that Muhammed himself was a descendant of the
prestigious Koreish tribe that came originally from Cutha in
Mesopotamia, it should not be difficult to see the handing down of the
"Babylonian" philosophical principles and doctrines in their varietal
forms in the guise of the Abrahamic faith. That Babylonian concept of a
"one-world government of mankind" being taught by Islam by its various
sects now has about a quarter of the world’s population adhering to it.

Indeed, the philosopher Karl Jaspers in his work titled The Origin
and Goal of History made the observation that the epoch surrounding
the time of the prophet Jeremiah was what he called "the Axial Period" for
the history of mankind. His thesis was that near that time the world went
into a brand new type of philosophical and religious belief that caused
the great world religions that we know of today to have their basic
origins. He felt it was no accident that Buddha, Lao-Tzu, Zoroaster,
Shintoism, the Greek philosophers, the beginning of Judaism, were all
concentrated in origin within this "Axial Period" of history. And the
center of it all, according to the Bible, was the Neo-Babylonian Empire
and its first king who was Nebuchadnezzar. It can be shown that much
transplantation of Babylonian ideas and religious beliefs were introduced,
into India at this time (which altered Hinduism in some of its essential
teachings). And from India, they spread into China and the eastern areas
of Asia.

When all is said and done, it can be shown that all the religions in
the world that we see about us at the present have in one way or another
been influenced by the people that came out of the region of Babylon. And
in the case of the Samaritans and others like them who gave Christianity
its present form of idolatry, we can know that it was inspired by Simon
Magus, himself a Samaritan. And, as mentioned above, even Islam has its
basic teachings coming from the priests of Cutha who originated in
Mesopotamia. It is no wonder that the Bible refers to the age from the
time of Nebuchadnezzar to the second advent of Christ as being the age
that will be dominated by Babylon and its philosophies (see the Books of
Daniel and Revelation).

I believe from the information that I have provided in this book that
we can now know who were The People That History Forgot. They were
not those of Rabbinic Judaism who have been accused of practicing idolatry
in the four hundred years from the second to the sixth centuries. Rabbinic
Judaism has not been guilty of such idolatry in the main (nor are they
today) in the sense of putting paintings, pictures and icons of pagan gods
and goddesses in their synagogues. The mainline Jews did not do such
things.

But who actually were The People That History Forgot? The
principal people were the Samaritans who went into Europe and became
Christians. They were also the Syrians and Phoenicians who did the same
thing. Additionally, there were also the Edomites who gave rise to some of
the emperors of Rome. And we should not forget the priestly tribe of the
Koreish who gave rise to Islam.

And they were also other Semitic tribes who joined their brethren in
the west. All of these people who went to Europe now go by different
names, which are modern European ones. These people are certainly not
inferior in any way that man imagines which has to do with race and racial
characteristics. Absolutely not! These people are sophisticated and
intelligent people. They have so much to offer to the world. But the
idolatry which they advocate has become rampant wherever they spread their
form of Christianity. The Scriptures warn people about the harmful effects
of image making and idolatry. Perhaps we should close this historical
study about The People that History Forgot with two quotes from
John and Paul. "Little children, keep
yourselves from idols" (1 John 5:21).
"Dearly beloved, flee from idolatry"
(1 Corinthians 10:14).